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Monthly Archives: December 2010
When your horse shows signs of incapacity, turn him out to graze.
22 December 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Horace—not just horses, but politicians also; especially those suffering from aegri somnia! Marriages that are contracted in haste tend to be regretted at leisure. That may apply as much to the political … Continue reading
Is a Krugerrand coin a good investment?
17 December 2010 With the global economy in tatters and simmering tensions in Korea and the Middle East, gold is still very much on the radar of investors. The press has played a huge role in creating awareness of gold … Continue reading
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
17 December 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nighingale Saint Augustine—and, in things like credit availability, much more dangerous! Economics activity progresses cyclically: relative to a fairly stable underlying trend, GDP tends to advance and retreat according to a regularly recurring … Continue reading
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Tagged economic analysis, economic comment, economic newsletter, Financial crisis, GDP, investment, QE, savings, spending cuts
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there’ve always been times like these.
15 December 2010 Guest Blogger – Roger Nightingale Paul Harvey—what changes is the perception of the extent of the unusualness! November’s inflation number was a little higher than expected. At 3⅓%, the increase in the CPI in Britain in the … Continue reading
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A university education helps you despise the wealth that it stops you getting.
10 December 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Russell Green—there’s causality between educational standards and economics growth: it goes from the latter to the former! The undergraduate and the banker share many characteristics: unconscionable selfishness and financial naïveté, for instance. … Continue reading
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The capacity to observe accurately is called cynicism by those who’ve not got it.
8 December 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale The mood amongst most economics commentators is upbeat, but it’s not clear that their optimism is justified by the data. World growth seems to have peaked in mid-summer and to have slowed … Continue reading
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The French Revolution made the rich poor, but not the poor rich
3 December 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Fisher Ames—European Monetary Union has done something rather similar. It’s significant that economics forecasters in most parts of the world have been raising their estimates of growth in 2010 and lowering them … Continue reading
What makes people think what they think is a mystery.
1 December 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Psychologists claim to understand the causality. But, demonstrably, they don’t. Investor psychology is sometimes enlightened and sometimes perverse. But it’s always difficult to manage. Those who try to do so rarely succeed; … Continue reading
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Members of a group who, singly, can do nothing; Often, jointly, decide that nothing can be done.
24 December 2010 Guest Blogger – Roger Nightingale Fred Allen—the upside of committees is that they’re rarely disastrously wrong; the downside that they’re rarely spectacularly right. In recent months, the Bank of England has been in two minds: torn between … Continue reading →